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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

TorrentFreak

This may help to explain why many recent studies and reports have linked malware to pirate sites. The Digital Citizens Alliance ( DCA ), which has close ties to the content industries, has highlighted these types of piracy threats for years. Of those who never visited pirate sites, ‘only’ 18 percent reported similar issues.

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BeStreamWise: New IPTV Anti-Piracy Campaign Begins With Fake Site ‘Scam’

TorrentFreak

With a running time of just 15 seconds it’s certainly short, but if a campaign wanted to target social media and/or search engine users looking for something in particular, dropping in something like this would make perfect sense. Illegal streaming can let criminals into your devices and network.